Creating IT Futures Blog from Creating IT Futures Foundation is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the Technology Skills Gap. Creating IT Futures Foundation is the phiIanthropic arm of the trade association, CompTIA. Their mission is to create more on-ramps for more people to prepare for, secure and succeed in IT careers. I particularly enjoyed the recent article by Charles Eaton titled "Filling the Skills Gap". I totally agree that It is important to spark the

This article from the Harvard Business Review, March 8, 2016, by Ravi S. Gajendran and Deepak Somaya, provides some interesting insights around the conventional wisdom that says "people don't leave companies, they leave bad bosses". The findings were summarized from the research article published by Ravi S. Gajendran, Sumita Raghuram, Deepak Somaya and Xiangmin Liu. The work was partly funded by a grant from the Society for Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation. The full re

In addition to technology skills what other skills are employers looking for? I came across a research paper written by John E. Bentley, Wachovia Bank in 1999 (http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2005/SER06_05.PDF ) on the personality traits of a great programmer. It included a section called Programmer Stereotype which I had to share: "The stereotypical programmer is a shy young man, either scrawny or overweight, who works by himself in an 8’x8’ cubicle in a bigger room of doz

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker As a CEO you want to do the best for your company - see it grow and thrive. When you began your career 25 or 30 years ago, fax machines were state-of-the art and a 'portable' computers was the size of a suitcase. There was no such thing as email and computers were not networked. It doesn't seem that long ago; yet so much has changed. As CEO you are expected to lead the organization towards a successful

The mainframe plays a critical role in large-scale financial, insurance and commercial organizations around the world. With the IBM investment of $1 billion in the popular Z13 Series platform, the mainframe can now support the ability to process 2.5 billion transactions per day, as well as support mobility, encryption and embedded analytics. It is an exciting time to be in the mainframe space because these are exactly the capabilities that organizations are looking for. The g